{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"2018-03-16","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control; Forest","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-06-04","city":"WALL","country_code":"US","county_code":"103","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"51800","engine_horsepower":867,"engine_maker":"P&W CANADA","engine_model":"PT6A-140AG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-11","maker":"Air Tractor Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AIR TRACTOR INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"0390306","mode_s_code":"50573165","mode_s_hex":"A2F675","model":"AT-502A","n_number":"N290LA","name":"ASCEND AG INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Sturgis","damage":"SUBS","date":"2023-06-18","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN23LA244","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s improper timing to initiate beta mode with the propeller and his failure to maintain directional during the full load landing that resulted in a runway excursion. Contributing to the accident was the pilot\u2019s lack of recent experience with performing a full load landing and the high-density altitude that likely affected aircraft performance during the landing.","registration":"N290LA","state":"SD","summary":"Accident on June 18, 2023 at Sturgis, SD: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N290LA is an Air Tractor Inc AT-502A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2018. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Ascend AG INC, a corporation in Wall, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 4, 2022 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated March 16, 2018.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Ascend AG INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 4, 2022, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated March 16, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 502A-3137 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N290LA according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N290LA: Accident on June 18, 2023 at Sturgis, SD: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"502A-3137","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"SD","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 413","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"01272325","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N290LA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2018,"zip":"577900413"}